Warning: This article contains spoilers forSquid Game: The Challengeepisodes 1-9.
Not many people can say they’ve eliminated their own parent on reality TV.
LeAnn missed a few throws, and Trey ultimately beat her and moved on without her.
Trey Plutnicki.Courtesy of Netflix
But when he was assigned spot No.
3in the Glass Bridge order,he knew his time was up.
Why did you pair up together?
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TREY PLUTNICKI:I never really considered pairing up with anybody different for that.
If we had more time to think about it, I think we may not have paired up together.
Waiting in line for this blanket, we were like, “This might be Marbles.”
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I was like, “If it is, that’s fine.
One of us goes through no matter what.”
She was, on the other hand, very against us pairing up in that moment.
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I just wanted to do it so I could spend more time with her.
That’s not strategic at all, but it sounds dope when I say it out loud.
That’s very “reality TV producer brain” but not “reality TV competitor brain” of you.
I like a good story and I like doing things that are interesting to watch.
When you learn it’s Marbles, what was the conversation like with your mom?
What didn’t we see in the episode of that moment?
I was devastated when it was Marbles.
We chatted about it on the blanket for a really long time.
“Do we let one of us win?
Who has the better chance of moving forward?”
And we came to the decision that, no, we’re going to play.
That’s a useless conversation.
She was like, “That’s a game of luck.
I want a game of skill.”
So we did this almost darts game with marbles.
We drew a couple circles in the sand, and that was her idea, not mine.
She sprung that on me literally two minutes before we started playing.
So she changed the game last second and had no idea that it ended up being in your favor.
But that’s not my fault.
I did everything right.
Have you and your mom talked about that since filming?
Do you think she subconsciously let you win?
No, she definitely wanted to win.
I really don’t think that there’s a subconscious effort to sabotage herself.
I think she literally just messed up and didn’t get the throw right.
What’s shocking to me is peopledon’thave that relationship with their parents.
After Marbles, your downfall comes in Glass Bridge.
What happened up there with Ashley?
What’s interesting is I just talked to Ashley yesterday.
I made peace with it.
That’s where the tension started.
And in that anger, I sort of blacked out and I never fully computed what the plan was.
Roland mentioned the plan on the bridge and he was like, “Everybody gets a jump.
It’s only fair.
It’s a 50/50 shot.”
I make my jump and I look back and I’m not really computing what that meant.
Obviously I just eliminated my mom right before then.
We were both under duress and I don’t have any sort of ill feelings about that at all.
Have you seen the episode yet?
I haven’t seen my elimination yet.
It’s very interesting to hear that you don’t blame her for what happened.
I’m not going to tell him to stop jumping.'"
She just thought that I went rogue and wanted to keep jumping and leave the game for whatever reason.
I thought that I was going to jump across 14 stones like an idiot.
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Well … it’s notimpossible, but it’s also not probable.
The odds were definitely not in your favor.
[Laughs] I could have done it!
It’s a slim chance, but it’s a chance.
We were 15 feet in the air, and it was cool being up there.
The set was unbelievable.
And then they had a stunt person do the actual fall.
They had a stunt person fall from every stone that somebody fell through.
It was really cool to watch what it’s like to be on a big budget television set.
What was your mom’s reaction when you told her what happened with Ashley on Glass Bridge?
She gives me a hug and she’s like, “Why are you here?
Why, why, why?”
TJ missed, instant elimination.
Charles missed, instant elimination.
Marina jumps in front of me, misses, instant elimination.
I feel I’ve done my job."
I don’t have any regrets about how I played.
What would surprise viewers to know about what it’s actually like competing onSquid Game: The Challenge?
Every single challenge took the whole day.
So the people that didn’t compete early, they had to wait seven hours in that white room.
For example, Dalgona: Circle went in first, got super lucky.
I spent six hours in the dorm while the umbrella people were still waiting to do theirs.
It’s really hurry up and wait it’s a TV set.
So when people are like, “Why is Spencer crying like that?”
Or do you want to do more reality TV shows and competitions?
I love performing and I love acting.
My skills lend better to live theater.
I just think that’s a bad way to go about doing that.
I want to do reality shows because I love competition.
I want to do more reality shows.
Obviously, yes, I want to do more TV and theater, but that’s work.
Do you want to go onSurvivor, especially afteryou became good friends with Figgyduring your time on this show?
And were you asking her a lot of questions about her time onSurvivor?
But I would love to doSurvivor, 110 percent.
That is my dream.
Someone getJeff Probston the phone.
Yeah, call Jeff Probst right now.
We can have a dimple-off!
The season finale ofSquid Game: The Challengepremieres Wednesday, Dec. 6, on Netflix.
